In advertising as much as in the news, professionals in any field relating to communication know that a picture really is worth a thousand words. I really don’t think there is any field in which this is truer than in science. Biologists produce amazing images every day that can really speak to how the body works and how we understand disease. We are using increasingly complicated techniques that rely on extremely sophisticated understanding of physics and computer science, pushing the boundaries of what we can see. Microscopy is now a science in its own right, and imaging specialists work with
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